faster with age

     Got in a 15 mile run today at the Pennsylvania farm. I ran the same hilly loop. I started at an 8:30 pace and increased to about 8 min pace over the first seven. I averaged 7:49 pace for the next 8 miles. 8:04 pace overall for 15 miles.

     Went for a 3 mile bike ride at the farm before leaving for Milford Pa where my wife's parents live. Later I got in a 6 mile run through the town of Milford.

     We went to the beach in New Jersey. Later we headed down to Philadelphia where we spent the night. We wanted to go to the Phillies game that night but the tickets sold out several days in advance. My step daughter and her husband paid 50 bucks for some scalped tickets [$40 seats] and went anyway. Never got time for a run but I felt beat anyway from spending a lot of time in the ocean. 

     I ran  6 miles on the treadmill at the hotel in Philadelphia in the morning. Started out with a 9:10 mile and sped up each mile. Last 2 miles were 7:12 and 6:33. Overall ave pace was 7:52. We spent the rest of the day visiting some tourist attractions including doing the "Rocky Balboa run" up the steps of the museum then caught our plane for home that evening.

     Back home this morning I ran 10 miles at 8:14 ave.

     PM   4 miles at 8:56 pace.

     I rode 30 miles on my road bike this morning. I'm planning to do a biathlon a week from tomorrow and figure I had better try to get in a couple of good rides since I haven't been on the bike much the past 3 weeks.

      I ran 20 miles this morning for the first time since last October. First thing this morning it was 45 deg and raining hard. I waited a couple of hours and the rain got very light and the temp up to 52 deg. Perfect for a long run. I wasn't able to run the dirt roads that I usually take because of mud so I ran down the highway. There are two big mile long hills that climb about 300 feet that I had to run both on the way out and back. I ran the first 8 miles at 7:58 ave pace. Then the next 12 at 7:42 ave pace. Overall ave pace for 20 was 7:48.